Rights Centre is where the business of publishing is enabled. This is the area dedicated to the publishing and audio-visual rights market within Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino.

The area is designed for all the Italian and international publishing houses, foreign rights managers, literary and scouting agencies, film/TV agencies and production companies.
Rights Centre will take place from Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 May 2022, and the professional activities (meetings, forums and events) will run from Wednesday until Friday evening. The fair opens to the public on Thursday 19 and closes on Monday 23 May.
Rights Centre will again be held at Centro Congressi Lingotto, close to the fair pavilions and easily reachable by metro from the city centre.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Book to Book, focused on Italian and international publishing and on the exchange of publishing and translation rights.
Book to Screen, focused on the intersection between the world of cinema and television and the publishing sector and the promotion of the acquisition and development of editorial content and the exchange between the two industries.
Book to Sound, a new area focused on the world of podcasts and audiobooks, with a special focus on Italian companies.

RIGHTS CENTRE PROGRAM
Wednesday 18th May
Centro Congressi Lingotto

• 2:00 pm - Rights Centre opening
  (you can access Rights Centre from 1pm, Via Nizza 270)
• 6:00 pm - Welcome Cocktail at The Lounge (inside Rights Centre area)

Thursday 19th May
Centro Congressi Lingotto

• 10:00am - 5:00 pm – Rights Centre
  (you can access Rights Centre from 9am, Via Nizza 270)
• 5:15pm - 7:00pm – Sala Lisbona, Centro Congressi
  B2A Book to Audio – Word of Mouth. Podcasts and publishing. Bringing people to books.
  John Mitchinson – Backlisted, Literary Podcast, UK
  Michele Rossi – Chora Media, Podcast Company, ITA
  Hana Walker-Brown – Broccoli Productions, Podcast Company, UK

Friday 20th May
Centro Congressi Lingotto

• 10:00am - 5:00pm – Rights Centre
  (you can access Rights Centre from 9am, Via Nizza 270)
• 1:45pm - 2:45pm – Sala Lisbona, Centro Congressi
  B2B Book to Book – Publishing Today. Public and private initiatives to support the trade and the people within the industry.
  Beniamino Ambrosi – The Cheney Agency, USA
  Lars Birken Bertsch – Director of Strategic Project Development, Cooperations & Programme, Frankfurt Book Fair
  Michael Gaeb – Literarische Agentur Michael Gaeb, Germany
  Aleksi Siltala – Siltala Publishing, Finland
• 5:15pm - 7:00pm – Sala Lisbona, Centro Congressi
  B2S Book to Screen – The Perfect Book, the Perfect Series, the Perfect Product. Is it Really Real?
  Maria Cardona Serra – Literary Agent, Pontas Agency, Spain
     on Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar
  Alexis Kirschbaum – Publisher, Bloomsbury UK
     on Lisa Taddeo, Three Women; Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
  John McElwee – Creative Executive, Apple TV+ USA Apple TV+ USA
  Giorgio Scorza – Producer, Movimenti Production Ita
     on Strappare lungo i bordi di Zerocalcare (Netflix)
  Anna Stein – Literary Agent, ICM, USA
     on Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain, Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life, Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace
  Viviana Vuscovich – Rights Manager GEMS, Ita
     on Ilaria Tuti Fiori sopra l’inferno, Teresa Battaglia (Publispei, Rai Fiction)

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Rights Centre offers a Book to Book Fellowship, thanks to the support of ITA - Italian Trade Agency, which is reserved for foreign professionals: publishers, editors, rights managers, literary agents and scouts.
The professionals selected for the Book to Book fellowship will be offered a three night accommodation (from 18 May to 21 May), a table at the rights market, the access to Rights Centre and Salone del Libro and the access to special events and workshops.

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